Bergman: Music from the Films / Pontinen

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Release Date
August 3, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH CHOPIN MOZART SCHUBERT
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Stenhammar Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Pontinen, Thedeen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 03, 2018
    • UPC
      7318599923772
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2377
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: IV. Sarabande (Cries and Whispers, Saraband)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Torleif Thedéen

    2. Fantasiestücke, Op. 12: No. 2. Aufschwung (Music in Darkness, Smiles of a Summer Night)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    3. Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1 (Fanny and Alexander)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    4. 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 24 in D Minor (Music in Darkness)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    5. Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: IV. Sarabande (Autumn Sonata)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Torleif Thedéen

    6. Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 (Face to Face)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    7. Mazurka No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (Cries and Whispers)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    8. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960: II. Andante sostenuto (In the Presence of a Clown)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    9. Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.535/L.262/P.531 (The Devil's Eye)

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    10. 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 2 in A Minor (Autumn Sonata)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    11. Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K. 380/L.23/F.326 (The Devil's Eye)

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    12. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 25. a 2 Clav. (The Silence)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen

    13. Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande (Through a Glass Darkly)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Torleif Thedéen

    14. Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44: II. In modo d'una Marcia (Fanny and Alexander)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Ensemble: Stenhammar Quartet

      Performer: Roland Pöntinen


Ingmar Bergman (1918- 2007) made fifty films, directed more than 150 theatre productions and wrote several books, but the recurrent thread running through his life was music. He often said that if he hadn't become a director he would have wished to become a conductor, and went so far as to claim that ‘film and music are almost the same thing. They are means of expression and communication that go beyond human wisdom and that touch a person’s emotional centre.’ Bergman’s interest in classical music became evident early on in his career. Music in Darkness (1948) is about a pianist who loses his sight in a shooting accident. To Joy (1950) features a violinist who dreams of a solo career and Summer Interlude (1951) takes place at the Royal Swedish Opera. He admired all who could perform music, reserving his greatest love for pianists, and concert pianists are portrayed in Hour of the Wolf, Face to Face and Autumn Sonata. One of Bergman’s favourite Swedish pianists was Roland Pöntinen, who here performs a number of pieces featured in Bergman’s films, by composers including Mozart, Chopin and Schumann. Pöntinen is joined by the Stenhammar Quartet in the second movement of Schumann’s piano quintet, used by Bergman to great effect in the award-winning Fanny and Alexander. Another of the director’s favourite performers, the cellist Torleif Thedéen, also contributes to the project, with the sarabandes from three of Bach’s suites for solo cello.